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(تجفّن)

جَفْنٌ

جَفْنٌ The eyelid; both the upper and the lower:(Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ:) of the mase. gender: (Mṣb:)pl. [of pauc.]أَجْفَانٌ and أَجْفُنٌ and [of mult.]جُفُونٌ. (Ḳ.)

word: جَفْنٌ ― (signification - A2)

The upper surface, and the lower, of a cake of bread: both together being called جَفْنَا الرَّغِيفِ. (Lḥ, TA.)

word: جَفْنٌ ― (signification - A3)

The scabbard, or sheath, (غِمْد, Ṣ, Ḳ, or غِلَاف, Mṣb,) of a sword: (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ:)[or] the case, or receptacle, in which is[put]the sword together with itsغمدand suspensory belt or cord:(Ṣ voce قِرَابٌ:)[but the former signification only is commonly known:] and [it is said that]جِفْنٌ↓ signifies the same; (Ḳ;) but this is doubted by IDrd: (M, TA:)pl. [of pauc.]أَجْفَانٌ and [of mult.]جُفُونٌ. (Mṣb.)

word: جَفْنٌ ― (signification - A4)

The أَصْل[app. here meaning stock]of a grape-vine:(Ḳ:) or a grape-vine itself, in the dial. of El-Yemen; (T, TA;) so called as being imagined to be the receptacle of the grapes: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or a species of grape:(ISd, Ḳ:) or the skin of the grape, in which is the juice:(IAạr, TA:) or a climbing shoot of a grape-vine:(AḤn, TA:) or the shoots of the grape-vine:(T, Ṣ, M, Ḳ:) n. un. with ة: (T Ṣ, M:) or, accord. to IAạr, جَفْنَةٌ is syn. withكرعة[app. a mistranscription for كَرْمَةٌa single grape-vine]: or, accord. to some, as ISd says, the leaves of the grape-vine.(TA.)[Hence,]مَآءُ الجَفْنِThe juice of the vine;(A, TA;)wine:(TA:)[or it may originally mean tears; then, rain; and then, wine: for] wine is also called مَآءُ السَّحَابِ: and جَفْنُ المَآءِ means the clouds.(TA.)

word: جَفْنٌ ― (signification - A5)

A kind of tree, of sweet odour.(AḤn, Ḳ.)

word: جَفْنٌ ― (signification - A6)

A certain plant, of the kind calledأَحْرَار, that grows in a spreading manner, and, when it dries up, contracts; having grains like theحُلْبَة[or fenugreek]. (AḤn, TA.)

جِفْنٌ

جَفْنَةٌ

جَفْنَةٌA[bowl of the kind called]قَصْعَة: (Ḳ:) or like aقصعة: (Ṣ:) the largest kind ofقصعة; (Ks, Ṣ in art. صحف, M;)next to which is the قصعة[properly so called], which satisfies the hunger of ten [men]; then, the صَحْفَة, which satisfies five; then, the مِئْكَلَة, which satisfies two men, and three; then, the صُحَيْفَة, which satisfies one man: (Ks, Ṣ in art. صحف:) it is peculiarly applied to a receptacle for kinds of food:(Er-Rághib, TA:) pl. [of mult.]جَفَانٌ(Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ) and جِفَنٌ(Sb, TA) and (of pauc., TA)جَفَنَاتٌ(Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ.)[Hence,]كُفِئَتْ جَفْنَتُهُ[His bowl was turned upside-down; meaning] ‡ he was slain; a phrase similar to هُرِيقَ رِفْدُهُ. (A in art. رفد.)

word: جَفْنَةٌ ― (signification - A2)

† A small well;(Ḳ;) as being likened to the جفنة for food. (Er-Rághib, TA.)

word: جَفْنَةٌ ― (signification - A3)

‡ A generous man:(Ḳ:)جَفْنَةٌ غَرَّآءُ is an appellation applied to a generous man who entertains many guests and feeds many:(IAạr, TA:) he is called جفنة because people are fed in the جفنة, and the epithet غرّآء is added because of the whiteness of the camel's hump in the جفنة. (TA.)